Campo Flicker (Colaptes campestris campestris), female

Altiplano Leste - Brasilia, DF, Brazil.

 

Known in Brazil as "pica-pau-do-campo".

 

Though it frequently can be seen in trees or bushes, it is among the very few woodpeckers that spends a significant portion of its life on the ground. It breeds in holes in trees, termite mounds or earth banks.

 

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Aves

Order: Piciformes

Family: Picidae

Subfamily: Picinae

Tribe: Picini

Genus: Colaptes Vigors, 1825

Species: C. campestris (Vieillot, 1818)

Species: C. c. campestris (Vieillot, 1818)

Trinomial name: Colaptes campestris campestris

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